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11-44C-2
Section 11-44C-2 Special election as to adoption of commission or mayor-council form of government.
Upon March 28, 1985, the mayor or chief executive officer of any city to which this chapter
applies shall call a special election to be held on May 14, 1985, said call for the purpose
of determining whether such city shall adopt the court ordered district commission form of
government in accordance with the consent decree entered into by the parties and approved
by the court on April 7, 1983, in the case of Bolden vs. City of Mobile, Civil Action No.
75-297, or in the alternative the mayor-council form of government, authorized by this chapter,
and shall give notice of the time and purpose of such election by publication once each week
for four consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in said city. All qualified electors of
such city may participate in said election, as provided by this chapter, and such questions
shall be plainly printed upon the ballot as provided in Section...
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16-13-183
Section 16-13-183 Election notice. The sheriff must give notice at least 30 days before any
election to be held under this article, by publication in some newspaper in the county, if
any is published therein, and if not, by writing posted at the courthouse door and at three
other public places in the county of the time of holding, and when any election is to be held
for a special tax for school purposes in any rural or city school tax district, written notices
shall be posted in three public places within said district 30 days prior to said election.
Said publications, both for special county and school tax district elections for school purposes,
shall show the rate of such proposed tax, the time it is proposed to be continued, the purpose
for which the levy is proposed to be made and a description of the boundaries of the proposed
school tax district. (School Code 1927, §263; Code 1940, T. 52, §256.)...
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17-13-2
Section 17-13-2 Applicability of chapter; applicability of general election laws to primary
elections. All primary elections held by any political party in this state for the nomination
of any state, national, district, circuit, county, or municipal officer shall be held and
conducted under the provisions of this chapter and, except as herein modified, shall be held
and conducted in the same manner and form, under the same requirements and subject to the
same forfeitures, penalties, and punishments as are now or shall hereafter be provided by
law for the holding of regular state elections, but nothing herein contained shall make it
obligatory upon any political party or parties to hold a primary election. (Acts 1975, No.
1196, p. 2349, §4; §17-16-4; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §59.)...
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16-13-190
Section 16-13-190 Validation of elections. Each election heretofore held in any school district
or in any municipality or in any county at large, in this state on the question of the levy
of a special tax for any school or educational purpose, or for school or educational purposes
generally, under the Constitution of Alabama or any amendment thereto, or upon the question
of the consolidation of two or more school districts and the levy of such a tax in the consolidated
school district resulting from such consolidation, at which election a majority of the ballots
cast were in favor of the levy of the tax, or in favor of the proposed consolidation and the
levy of the tax in the consolidated district, as the case may be, and which election was irregular
because of failure prior to the holding of the election to give notice thereof in a newspaper
or by posting in the manner or for the time required by the statute under which the election
was held, or because the period of time for which...
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16-13-181
Section 16-13-181 Request by board of education for election. Upon the written request of the
county board of education or of the board of education of any city having a city board of
education for a special election in any school tax district under the control of the respective
board, the county commission shall call an election at the time and for the rural or city
school tax districts as requested by the respective board of education and shall appoint three
managers and one returning officer for each voting place in the school tax district or at
such special voting places as may be designated for the special election by the judge of probate
of the county who shall locate such voting places, upon the recommendation of the county board
of education, and such special voting places shall be set out in the notices of the special
election. (School Code 1927, §265; Code 1940, T. 52, §258.)...
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11-16-37
Section 11-16-37 Qualifications and appointment of election managers and returning officers;
laws governing elections. The probate judge, the circuit clerk, and the sheriff of said county,
within 10 days after notice in writing to them of the calling of such election, shall appoint
three managers and one returning officer to conduct the election in each beat or polling place
in the county, and said managers shall all reside in the beats, wards, or precincts where
they are appointed to serve and shall be qualified electors at said elections. In all other
respects the laws relating to the holding of elections in counties to determine whether county
bonds may be issued shall govern and apply to elections held under this chapter. (Acts 1927,
No. 399, p. 467; Code 1940, T. 12, §266.)...
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17-11-11
Section 17-11-11 Officials for counting of absentee ballots; poll watchers. (a) For every primary,
general, special, or municipal election, there shall be appointed one inspector and at least
three clerks, named and notified as are other election officials under the general laws of
the state, who shall meet, at the regular time of closing of the election on that day, in
the courthouse, or municipal building for municipal elections, as designated by the absentee
election manager for the purpose of counting and returning the ballots cast by absentee voters.
The returns from the absentee precinct shall be made as required by law for all other boxes.
It shall be unlawful for any election official or other person to publish or make known to
anyone the results of the count of absentee votes before the polls close. (b) Any person or
organization authorized to appoint poll watchers under Sections 17-8-7 and 17-13-11 may have
a single watcher present at the counting of absentee ballots, with...
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11-42-100.1
Section 11-42-100.1 Mode of consolidation - When municipality to annex city or town. (a) When
two or more municipalities lying contiguous to each other desire to consolidate and operate
as one municipality, they may do so by proceeding in the manner hereafter provided in this
section. (b) If it is the purpose to annex a city or town to another municipality, then the
governing body of each city or town shall adopt an ordinance expressing a willingness to such
annexation. After both ordinances are passed and published as provided for by law, the governing
body of the municipality to be annexed shall, by resolution submit the question of annexation
at a special election to be held at a time specified in such resolution, not less than 40
days nor more than 90 days after passage of the last adopted willingness ordinance or at a
time otherwise specified by law. No other proposition may be on the ballot. Said election
shall be held pursuant to the general municipal election laws. (c) In...
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17-16-64
Section 17-16-64 Statement - Contents of statement; verification; service; amendments. The
written statement of the grounds of contest must set forth specifically: (1) The name of the
person contesting and that the person was a qualified voter when the election was held. (2)
The office which the election was held to fill, and the time of holding the same. (3) The
particular grounds of contest. (4) The name of the counties in which any of the alleged grounds
of the contest may have occurred, and shall state with particularity the names of the election
precinct in each of such counties in which the grounds of contest may be alleged to have occurred.
(5) The grounds on which the declared voter of each of the named election precincts in each
county is contested. Such statement of the grounds of contest must be sworn to by the elector
making the contest before some officer authorized to administer oaths in the State of Alabama,
and may be amended from time to time as may be determined by...
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45-17-242
Section 45-17-242 Election to authorize tax. The board of revenue, court of county commissioners,
or like governing body of Colbert County is hereby authorized to call an election of the qualified
electors of the county for the purpose of determining whether or not the county governing
body may levy an additional county privilege or excise tax on tobacco and certain tobacco
products. Due notice of the time of holding the election and of the purpose of the election
must be given by the sheriff at least 30 days prior to the date the election is to be held,
by publication in some newspaper in the county, and by posting such notice at the courthouse
door and at three other public places in the county. The county governing body shall provide
for the holding of the election on the date specified in the notice. If the question of levying
the special tax authorized herein fails to carry at such election, that fact shall not preclude
the submission of the question to the voters of the county at...
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